First and Last Sorcerer by Barb Hendee & J. C. Hendee

Author:Barb Hendee & J. C. Hendee [Hendee, Barb & Hendee, J. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780451469304
Google: oC3roAEACAAJ
Amazon: B00KWG5TIK
Barnesnoble: B00KWG5TIK
Goodreads: 22522077
Publisher: Roc Hardcover
Published: 2015-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The next morning, Leesil opened his eyes to dim light. Lifting his head from where he lay on a bed beside Magiere, he looked out toward the main room and saw muted sunlight spilling across floor cushions outside the bedchamber’s entrance. After a moon in that black cell with only a candle, even that much light hurt his eyes. Squinting, he rolled his head to the side and faced a mass of black hair.

Magiere still slept with her back pressed against his chest beneath the light blanket over both of them. She was so quiet, like the long silences between screams when he hadn’t known where she was.

He almost pressed his face into the back of her neck to be certain she was really there. And then everything from the previous night came back.

Leesil remembered being roused by loud voices in the outer room. He’d wanted to go and quiet everyone before they woke Magiere or Wayfarer. As he’d rolled carefully out of bed, one oddity caught his eye.

Chap was gone from Wayfarer’s bed.

He’d rushed out to find everyone else arguing, and not long after that, everything had come apart. Later, once he’d put Wayfarer back in bed, Chap had sat on the floor between both beds and stared at the doorless entrance until Wynn finally came.

At least she’d been smart enough to come alone, though upon entering she’d flinched again when she looked at Chap. Whatever he’d said in her head must not have been kind or even grateful. Yes, Wynn and hers had gotten her friends out of prison, but what had she dragged all of them into?

Leesil had heard too much in that outer room amid the squabble and near bloodshed, and Osha had sided with that undead. By the time Wynn finished explaining all that had happened since her arrival in the city, Leesil had been even wearier than when he’d dragged Magiere into this place.

And now he didn’t want to think about any of it anymore.

Peeling the blanket aside, he forced himself up again, but then he sat on the bedside and hung his head, uncertain what to do.

“Are we still here and . . . not there?”

Those weak words in the room’s half-light wiped away all recollection as Leesil raised his head. Wayfarer and Chap were still sound asleep in the other bed, and he quickly turned the other way.

There was Magiere with her head upon the pillow. She’d rolled partway to look up at him through half-opened eyes. By her expression, she didn’t know how he could be there at all. Part of him felt that same doubt, and he pressed his lips to her forehead. When he sat back up, her pale face was still confused.

“Yes, we’re here . . . not in the prison,” he assured quietly.

He was still weak, and more so with relief, at the sight of her beside him, of being able to hold her, touch her, protect her. Until she regained her strength, that was all that mattered.

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